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Paige Balcom, Tomás Vega and Corten Singer, from left, Berkeley alums featured in the award-winning documentary “Pathways to Invention.”

UC Berkeley innovators featured in ‘Pathways to Invention’ film

04/26/24 — Special to debut in May on PBS stations and streaming apps

Photo of Niklaus Wirth in 1984, when he won the prestigious Turing Award. On the left is “Lilith,” one of the world’s first computer workstations with a high-resolution graphic display and a mouse, and a forerunner of today’s personal computers.

Niklaus Wirth, visionary software architect, has died

02/28/24 — New York Times: Berkeley Engineering alum (Ph.D.’63 EECS) and creator of the Pascal programming language saw power in simplicity

Photo of Augmental co-founder Corten Singer (B.A.’17 CS, B.A.’17 CogSci, M.S.’18 EECS).

Berkeley alum develops tongue-controlled touchpad

01/30/24 — Corten Singer (B.A.’17 CS, B.A.’17 CogSci, M.S.’18 EECS) seeks to create a new paradigm in assistive technologies

Stack of Berkeley Engineer Fall 2023 magazines

Fall magazine is here

11/06/23 — Latest Berkeley Engineer features a renaissance in nuclear power, innovating the next generation of batteries, and unearthing a legacy

The greening of jeans

11/06/23 — Huue, a company co-founded by alum Tammy Hsu, uses biotechnology to create environmentally friendly dyes for denim.

New & noteworthy

11/06/23 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

Farewell

11/06/23 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

Kirk Tramble (B.S.’93 EECS) is new president of Cal Alumni Assoc. board of directors

11/02/23 — CAA: In a Q&A, Tramble discusses his deep connections to UC Berkeley, including co-founding the Black Engineering and Science Alumni Club

Berkeley Engineering alums among winners of MacArthur Foundation’s ‘genius award’

10/18/23 — UC Newsroom: Linsey Marr (M.S.'97, Ph.D.'02 CEE) and Lester Mackey (Ph.D.'12 CS) recognized for bringing outstanding originality, dedication and drive to their fields

Berkeley alum creating a greener future for bluejeans

09/28/23 — Tammy Hsu (Ph.D.’19 BioE) uses her engineering know-how to develop eco-friendly denim dye

Should we take election forecasts seriously? A computer scientist says yes

08/17/23 — CDSS: Heading into the 2024 presidential election cycle, election forecaster and Berkeley Engineering alum Lakshya Jain shares how computing has changed political prediction efforts

Richard Simpson, pioneering safety regulator, dies

07/27/23 — Washington Post: Simpson (B.S.'56 EECS), founding chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, was 93

Photo of Gridscope mounted to a power pole in a snowy, mountainous area. (Photo courtesy Gridware)

CITRIS Foundry alumni innovate for a more sustainable world

06/01/23 — CITRIS: Startups founded by Berkeley engineers work to combat climate change, improve energy efficiency and develop more sustainable solutions

New & noteworthy

05/17/23 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

On the grid

05/17/23 — A device from Gridware, founded by engineering alums, uses harmonics from power poles to evaluate grid integrity and hazard risks.

Farewell

05/17/23 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

Hari Balakrishnan awarded 2023 Marconi Prize

02/22/23 — Berkeley Engineering alum, innovator and entrepreneur honored for the broad societal impact of his discoveries in mobile sensing, networking and distributed systems

Photo of civil and environmental engineering professor Kenichi Soga.

Kenichi Soga named to the NAE

02/07/23 — Berkeley geotechnical engineer receives one of the highest professional honors accorded an American engineer

Black Engineering and Science Alumni Club to host anniversary celebration for BESSA, BGESS

02/03/23 — Celebrating Black excellence and inspiring the next generation of Berkeley engineers